Shore Regional board limits drinking at functions

Adults can

BY SHERRY CONOHAN
Staff Writer

Adults can’t bring
drinks into room at
student banquets
BY SHERRY CONOHAN
Staff Writer

WEST LONG BRANCH — A new policy on liquor for adults attending student functions, banning its consumption in the same banquet room as the students, has been adopted by the Shore Regional High School Board of Education.

The board’s previous policy held that liquor could not be "served" in the same banquet room in which students are present and being honored for school activities.

Leonard G. Schnappauf, the superintendent/principal of the high school district, noted at the board’s meeting July 22 at which the policy was changed that, up until now, adults could leave the banquet room and go to the bar of the hotel or other facility where the event was being held, buy a drink, and bring it back to their table in the banquet room with the students.

Ted Szczurek, president of the board, observed that while the board can’t prevent an adult from buying an alcoholic drink at the hotel or banquet facility, "We can control what goes on in the room" of the dinner with students.

Board member Russell Olivadotti said that while he agreed with the new policy, "that will be a very interesting policy to hold to."

Paul Rolleri, another board member, said adults should never be drinking alcoholic beverages at any function for children.

"I don’t care if it’s a coaches’ party. I don’t care if it’s a parents’ party at home," he said. "It should never happen."

Turning to another matter, Schnappauf said the tuition for nonresident students will be $12,500 this fall. He said the school presently has four tuition students, which means revenue of $50,000 for the school. The tuition, however, just barely covers the cost per pupil of $12,528 to educate a student at Shore Regional.

Schnappauf said that if the non­resident tuition were lower, say at $10,000, the school is so attractive that many more such students likely would enroll. He said that would make Shore’s tuition lower than that of many private schools.

"That number could easily dou­ble or triple," he said of nonresident enrollment at the $10,000 level.

The board accepted the resigna­tion of longtime school business administrator Nicholas Cammarano, who is retiring. His resignation is ef­fective Oct. 1.

Cammarano has been a school business administrator for 36 years, and at Shore Regional since 1972.